Linear codes from perfect nonlinear mappings and their secret sharing schemes

In this paper, error-correcting codes from perfect nonlinear mappings are constructed, and then employed to construct secret sharing schemes. The error-correcting codes obtained in this paper are very good in general, and many of them are optimal or almost optimal. The secret sharing schemes obtained in this paper have two types of access structures. The first type is democratic in the sense that every participant is involved in the same number of minimal-access sets. In the second type of access structures, there are a few dictators who are in every minimal access set, while each of the remaining participants is in the same number of minimal-access sets.